Achille Starace
1889 – 1945 Italian Secretary of the National Fascist Party
Party secretary who engineered the ritualized cult of Mussolini.
- Religion
- Catholic background; the chief impresario of the secular cult of the Duce, which functioned as a substitute civic religion.
- Affiliations
- National Fascist Party secretary. No occult ties.
Starace ran the Fascist Party's day-to-day apparatus and designed the mass rituals, slogans and salutes that turned devotion to Mussolini into a state cult. His rigid enforcement of Fascist style made him a target of ridicule. Captured by partisans, he was shot in 1945.
Connections
- associate of Benito Mussolini — Built and enforced the ritual cult around the Duce.
- associate of Benito Mussolini — Party secretary who built the Fascist personality cult around him.